An overview of the course and an exploration of the history and changing forms of archives. Guest speaker: David A. Bailey

How to make archives available to different audiences and how to promote your archive. Introducing the use of open access and community involvement to increase reach and build stronger stories within archives. Guest speaker: Andrea Holzherr

Introducing the debate on whether to digitise collections, in full or part. Practical guidelines in finding a suitable affordable platform.

An introduction and practical guidelines. Guest speaker: Nathalie Herschdorfer

Introduction to different solutions & considerations for both digital and physical material. Final Q&A session on next steps with your archive. Guest speaker: Luce Lebart

David A. Bailey MBE is a photographer, writer, curator, lecturer and cultural facilitator who lives and works in London. David’s practice is focused on the issues that relate to black representations in the areas of photography, performance and artists’ film. He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of ICF, the International Curators Forum, an organisation who offers a programme of commissions, exhibitions, projects, publications and events that respond to the material conditions and cultural contexts impacting creative practitioners today. David is leading on The Photographers' Gallery Ten.8 project partnership.

Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator and art historian specializing in the history of photography. She is the Director of the museum Photo Elysée, the photography museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. She is an active voice in contemporary photography and has been invited to organize numerous exhibitions outside Switzerland. She teaches the history of photography at the Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL). She is co-curator of Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage. 

Andrea Holzherr is a cultural director, publicist and curator. She has worked as the Global Cultural Director and Curator for Magnum Photos, Paris since 2003. She is responsible for promoting the Magnum Archive through active exhibition work in collaboration with international museums and cultural institutions. Previous to this, she worked at the Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris as Assistant Curator to the Director. She is co-curator, with Anne-Marie Beckmann and Karen McQuaid of Ernest Cole: House of Bondage.

Luce Lebart is a French photography historian, an exhibition curator and a researcher at the Archive of Modern Conflict. Previously she was director of the French Photography Society Collection, Library and Archive in Paris. Lebart has curated internationally a wide range of books and exhibitions. Her project are mainly based on overlooked photo archives both private and institutional. Among them is Mold is beautiful (POURSUITE 2015), Lady Liberty (Seuil 2016), Gold and Silver (RVB BOOKS-CPI, 2017), Inventions (CNRS-RVB BOOKS 2019), Cloud Album, (AMC-Polygon), Prendre le Soleil ( Hangar Y), Will Write Soon, (AMC-Gwinzegal, 2024), Sky Album (AMC-Fotografia Europea, 2024). 

Kathryn Tollervey is the Archivist at The Photographers’ Gallery. She has twenty years’ experience working in photographic archives such as Foster + Partners (Norman Foster’s architectural studio) photographic & special collections archive, the Victorian high street photographer Edward Reeves’ Archive and the archives of celebrated American-photographer Lee Miller.